On Monday, October 16, 2017, I was honored to attend Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration in the June swagger gates concert hall at the University of Denver. The conductor in this concert was Joseph Martin and his assistant was Chris Ugolini. In this concert, there were several instruments used. Catherine Flinchum, Daniel Eng, Mari McCarville, and Rose Khorsandi were playing the flute. Chris leech and libra Bennett played the oboe. Max Arakaki, Leslie Kahler, Natalie Boggs, and Meggie Evans played the clarinet. in addition, kyle Przybylski played the bass clarinet and Glenna Boggs with Renee young played Bassoon. The Alto saxophone was played by Rachel Webb and Emily Nicol. Peter Davis, john burton, Austin hood, and Jordan Thomas played …show more content…
The concert started with a religious piece called Profanation from Jeremiah and it was based on a biblical story of a prophet named Jeremiah and his story in Jerusalem. This music piece tends to be a folk music. The music piece is managed to be divided into three sections, prophecy, profanation, and lamentation. The song starts with a solo horn fading in slowly playing over for couple seconds until a solo flute takes the roll along with a softer drum roll leading to a gathering of bassoons and clarinets.Also, the trombone enters in a high pitch increasing the song tempo.The melody throughout the song was lead by the flutes in first and then by the violins. The symphony ends with a three-note motif in a melodic gesture leading the song to end with a quiet tone.The second music piece is called candidate suite and it was conducted by Clare Grundman and has five parts. The first part is called The best of all possible worlds. In addition to Westphalia choral, Auto da fe, Glitter and be gay, and Make our Garden grow. The song starts with a high timpani hit and a brass fanfare. The melody then is lead by the trombone, and the flute joins the trombone. The tempo and the melody tend to be fast and there was soloist by the flute, clarinet, and the bassoon. The piccolo then leads the melody and shapes a descending tone. In the middle of the song, the theme sounds quiet and slows with a flute solo in the
The concert began with an incredibly brief introduction from the president of the Rochester Oratorio Society, after which the society performed a piece that is not listed on the program. After hearing the raw talent the choir displayed in their first performance the crowd praised them, and at this time a representative from the city’s mayor office took the stage and presented the society with a proclamation. The proclamation was on behalf of the city offices and expressed thanks for their 70 years of musical performances and education. Afterwards the society performed Norman Dello Joio’s “A Jubilant Song,” which served as a transition for the Houghton College Choir to take the seats of the men’s choral section. The college choir was approximately a third the size of the society choir, but still managed to perform with a lot of talent. The Houghton College Choir performed Kenneth Jennings’ “The Lord is the Everlasting God” and Larry Farrow’s “Give Me Jesus.” After a quick intermission the Rochester Oratorio Society took to the stage to perform Brahm’s Requiem, which is typically performed with an orchestra, but in their rendition a two person piano served as a replacement. Brahm’s Requiem is in German, making it difficult to understan...
The concert is performed by the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The video of this concert is 90 minutes in length. The concert was an ensemble of various Dave Brubeck arrangements utilizing various jazz techniques and styles with mainly the following instruments: bass, piano, trumpet, trombone, tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, flute, piccolo, baritone sax, drum, and tambourine. The performance included these 15 pieces: “Unsquare Dance”, “Three to Get Ready”, “The Duke”, “Cassandra”, “Strange Meadowlark”, “Who Will Take Care of Me?”, “It’s a Raggy Waltz”, “Tokyo Traffic”, “Take Five”, “Lost Waltz”, “Upstage Rhumba”, “In Your Own Sweet Way”, “Fast Life”, “Bluette”, and “Blue Rondo a la Turk”. The performance highlights the versatile, influential and extraordinary life’s work of Dave Brubeck.
This live performance of “Bless Your Beautiful Hide” by Adam is a confident and arrogant way to find love. In this song Adam explains how he is here to find himself a wife. That’s just what Adam does too. By hearing this song the viewer gets the hint that the play is a love story about him and this beautiful lady that he is staring at. Adam uses his bass voice to keep the tempo moderately constant. The dynamics change throughout the song with a grand finish of a chershendo. Adam uses accents in the song to emphasize his feelings of getting a wife. An orchestra is accompanying him with the instruments like: trumpets, banjos, and trombones. This sets the mood for the story to take place.
The event I attended was “An Evening of Jazz” concert held at the Fine Arts Hall on November 17 at 7:30 p.m. The performing groups were The Santa Fe Rhythm and Blues Review, The Santa Fe Jazz Combo, and Santa Fe Big Band. The event was to for me to understand, experience Jazz music and know the instruments used.
Beethoven’s Overture to King Stephen, Op. 117, begins energetically with brass instruments, such as the trumpets and french horns, opening the piece in forte, followed by the string instruments. As the brass and string instruments silence, a single flute accompanied by other woodwind instruments plays notes in andante that represent a joyful dance movement that will repeatedly occur throughout the duration of the piece. The music begins to develop into presto as percussion is added to the composition
Leonard Bernstein is widely known not only as one of the greatest American conductors, but also as a composer whose creativity and passion was spread over a wide range. His social and cultural influences helped shape his career into a musical icon and his music rekindled the American spirit. Above all, he will be remembered as one of the most amazing and influential musical personalities of the twentieth century.
This performance was live, therefore all of the crowds reactions and Charlotte’s performance was not acted out or tampered with. Their attire was a black tie event, but Charlotte Church wore a pink dress. I feel that not only was her singing impressive, but the orchestra was magnificent. They highlighted her vocal skills very well. The song that Charlotte Church sung “The Holy City” was a type of song form that lifts you up and puts you in a good or happy mood. The song form of this song is called sonata-allegro. This form is one that has three main sections, exposition, development, and recapitulation. I say that this song is a sonata-allegro because it tells a story. It leads up to the end where everything is upbeat and cheerful. The tempo is also allegro, because it has a joyful tone to it that makes the listener happy.The meter and dynamic levels of this song are both mixtures. The meter switches back and forth between duple and triple and even compound. The dynamic levels to the same thing, they do not remain in the soft piano stage the whole way through. “The Holy City” differs from the piano stage and the forte stage, going from soft to loud. Listening to this song all I could do was feel joy. I love listening to music that makes everyone happy and you can tell by the way they are singing and how everyone reacts. This music really inspires me to want to learn more about its style and how it
One performance that stood out to me during the concert was a song called Sinfonia #3 by J. C. Bach (Wind Ensemble Concert program). The reason I enjoyed this song was because it was performed by nine saxophone players. I would say
The second piece, Paratum Cor Meum, was a much shorter piece with very few lyrics. It was interesting to hear a piece by Haydn, since we had discussed this composer in class. I was impressed by the choir members’ ability to remember words in another language, and I enjoyed the sounds of the piano accompaniment.
First of all, in the Mock abduction part, a nice and good melody begins with the clarinets with a sustained
My band program performed this piece during my sophomore year of high school, and I played fourth horn. In order for our ensemble to understand the message we were supposed
In readiness for the concert, I enjoyed a special dinner prepared for the audience. More specifically, LA Phil staffers introduced us to the evening classical concert amidst cheers from the audience. It was such a refreshing and joyous feeling to be part of this audience. The pianist and concert conductor, Christian Zacharias opened the Los Angeles Philharmonic Classical Music concert with a fascinating performance that left the audience in party mood and in happy feelings.
Public Spaces provide unique experiences and contribute to the identity of a city. Found as places like plazas, parks, marketplaces, within buildings, lobbies and many more. Public spaces are important to our society and therefore face more arguments in design and construction compared to private spaces.
The brass plays an ascending sequence, followed by pizzicato notes played by the strings, and an ascending and descending scale on the harp. Strings and oboe play the rhythmic melody, whilst the trumpet plays fanfares in syncopation. The oboe is then replaced by the flute. There is an ascending scale played by the strings, then the brass section repeats the string and oboe melody with cymbal crashes at cadence points. The orchestra then plays a loud melody with cymbal crashes and drum rolls. There is an interrupted cadence, followed by crescendo with cymbal crashes and a brass ostinato. The piece ends with a perfect cadence.
The final and twelfth piece was made up of excerpts from a longer work called Five Short Pieces for Clarinet and Bassoon. To me, maybe because the concert was beginning to get long or maybe because I did not have many notes over it, the last piece seems fairly similar throughout its movements, or “Short Pieces.” The first was an up-beat piece with a distinct melody. The clarinet and bassoon alternated, with the clarinet playing the higher notes. The second movement had a have complete feel to it. The two instruments played at the same time, close to it. The third movement was an impressive sounding mix of ups and downs. It seemed that the performers were working very hard and it sounded very complex.